Sheikh Mohammed tells Dubai and Abu Dhabi doubters to shut up
In an unusually frank and forthright outburst, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai and Prime Minister of the UAE, dismissed concerns of a rift between Abu Dhabi and Dubai and insisted that Dubai was well placed to recover from the global credit crunch. Dubai has been hit hard by the global recession [...]
The rise, fall and salvation of Dubai
The First Post has a great background piece on the rise and, much exaggerated, fall of Dubai. It features a potted history of how Dubai became so wealthy and why the emirate chose to take the direction it did – because its oil resources were predicted to be exhausted by the 2020s for those who [...]
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